USS pension reform plan an ‘undesirable’ and ‘retrograde’ step
Pensions expert criticises Universities UK’s ‘outdated’ proposal to end defined benefit scheme for almost 200,000 staff
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What are you reading? – 23 November 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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EU’s ‘Bologna 2.0’ vision threatens to leave UK behind
British universities face potential challenges if they are left outside the ‘Sorbonne process’, experts warn
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The week in higher education – 23 November 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Research impact is more than a multimillion-dollar question
Australia’s new impact assessment exercise recognises cultural, social and environmental impacts, but there is a danger that economic impact will override everything, says David Lloyd
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Does the TEF spell the end for quality assurance?
The TEF’s new name may be less misleading, but its incentives remain just as perverse, says Roger Brown
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Who can resist the pleasure of Schadenfreude?
Academic disputes can be acrimonious and unedifying, but victory is always sweet, says Shahidha Bari
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Universities must be places of intellectual discomfort
If the Office for Students ever intervenes over freedom of speech, it will only be to widen it, says Michael Barber
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Tossing and turning: what keeps university staff awake?
Academics and professional staff reveal the things that prey on their minds at 2am
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A University Education, by David Willetts
Book of the week: His passion is evident, his work prodigious, but an ex-minister has blind spots that trouble Nigel Thrift
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UK higher education remains largely unmoved by market forces
Faith in private-sector innovation has driven Conservative reforms under both Willetts and Johnson – but is that really what universities need?